Torpor

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Torpor \Tor"por\, n. [L., from torpere, to be torpid.]
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     1. Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity
        with partial or total insensibility; numbness.
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     2. Dullness; sluggishness; inactivity; as, a torpor of the
        mental faculties.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  torpor
       n 1: a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial
            suspension of sensibility; "he fell into a deep torpor"
            [syn: {torpidity}]
       2: inactivity resulting from torpidity and lack of vigor or
          energy [syn: {listlessness}, {torpidity}, {torpidness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  133 Moby Thesaurus words for "torpor":
     abeyance, abidingness, acedia, aloofness, apathy, ataraxia,
     ataraxy, benumbedness, blah, blahs, boredom, catalepsy, catatonia,
     changelessness, coma, comatoseness, constancy, deadliness,
     deathliness, detachment, disinterest, dispassion, dormancy,
     drowsiness, dullness, durability, durableness, duration, endurance,
     enervation, ennui, entropy, fatigue, firmness, fixedness,
     frozenness, hardening, heartlessness, heaviness, hebetude,
     hopelessness, idleness, immobility, immovability, immovableness,
     immutability, inactivity, inanimation, inappetence, indifference,
     indolence, inertia, inertness, insouciance, invariability,
     invariableness, inveteracy, jadedness, just being,
     lack of appetite, lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment,
     languor, languorousness, lassitude, lastingness, latency, laziness,
     lenitude, lentor, lethargicalness, lethargy, lifelessness,
     listlessness, long standing, lotus-eating, mere existence,
     mere tropism, nonchalance, numbness, oscitancy, passiveness,
     passivity, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, persistence,
     persistency, phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness,
     plucklessness, pococurantism, quiescence, resignation,
     resignedness, rigidity, satedness, sleep, sleepiness, sloth,
     slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, solidity, somnolence, sopor,
     soporifousness, spiritlessness, spunklessness, stability,
     stagnancy, stagnation, standing, stasis, steadfastness, stolidity,
     stupefaction, stupor, supineness, suspense, torpidity, torpidness,
     torpitude, unchangeability, unchangingness, unconcern, vegetation,
     vis inertiae, weariness, withdrawnness, world-weariness